Book Links

 

General Sites

Amazon.com	The leading online retailer of books, with more than 2.5 million titles (in and out of print). Site includes reviews, recommendations, and bestseller and awards lists.
Barnes and Noble	Huge online bookstore including out of print titles. Links to reviews, book and author news, and bestseller lists.
BookSpot	Links to book awards and reviews, reading lists, bookstores, industry news and more.
Bookwire	The book industry's most comprehensive and thorough online information source with book industry news, features, reviews, guides to literary events, author interviews, annotated lists of book-related sites and more.
Books Reference Page	Wide-ranging set of annotated links - from the Internet Public Library

 

Electronic Texts

Digital Book Index	Index to over 100,000 digital and ebooks on the web.
Online Texts Collection	Contains over 7700 texts that can be browsed by author, title or subject - from the Internet Public Library
On-line Books Page	Searchable list of online texts, including Project Gutenberg and foreign language sites.

Library Links

Catalogs at other libraries	Library links of all kinds, including online catalogs and web pages at other libraries.
National Library Service	for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.

Literary Criticism Plus

Celebration of women writers	Biographical and bibliographical information about women writers through the centuries and around the world, with links to online texts.
Internet Public Library's literary criticism collection	Criticism and biographical information for over 100 authors (primarily American and British) and their works. Browse by author, title or time period.

 

Maine Links

Fiction with a Maine Setting	Adult fiction set completely or partially in real or imaginary places in the state of Maine - from the Waterboro Public Library
Maine Antiquarian Booksellers Association	Directory of booksellers dealing in a wide range of used, rare and out-of-print books and other materials.
Maine Literature Daily	Maine Literature Daily posts literary events, announcements and informative links.
Maine Mystery Writers	List includes author biographies and bibliographies - from the Waterboro Public Library
Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance	Statewide literary organization. Site includes membership info; calendar of writing workshops, readings and other events; and links for writers.
Maine Writers Index	Biographical and bibliographical information on over 323 Maine writers. Links to articles, interviews, book reviews, home pages and related resources - from the Waterboro Public Library
Recommended Maine Books (pre 1956)	Includes books for adults and children, plus poetry and reference materials- from the Waterboro Public Library

 

Out-of-Print Resources

Bibliofind	More than 20 million used and rare books, periodicals and ephemera from thousands of booksellers around the world.
BookFinder.com	Searches for new, used or out-of-print books in several databases at once, including: Advanced Book Exchange Alibris Powell's Books
Maine Antiquarian Booksellers Association	Directory of booksellers dealing in a wide range of used, rare and out-of-print books and other materials.

 

Reviews and Recommendations

Awards	Lists of award-winners covering adult fiction and nonfiction and children's books - from Amazon.com.
Bestseller Lists:	New York Times Publisher's Weekly BookPage
BookBrowser	Browse for fiction, nonfiction and children's books by time period, setting, awards, format, price, etc. Now part of Barnes and Noble.com
BookLetters	Monthly updates of new Curtis Library titles, staff recommendations, BookPage Bestsellers, e-newsletters and award winning essays.
Booklist	Reviews of books, audiovisual and reference materials- from the American Library Association.
Canadian Literature:	Northwest Passages: Virtual bookstore and information resource for readers, scholars and students of Canadian literature includes reviews, author bios and extensive set of links.
Children's Literature	Search this database to locate award-winning children's books that fit your criteria (including age, genre, historical period and more).
New York Times Book Review:	Complete text of reviews back to 1980 plus their current bestseller lists.
New York Review of Books	Complete text of selected articles.
NoveList After clicking on this link, choose NoveList from the alphabetical list	Author readalikes, book discussion guides, lists of books by series and many other ways to explore children's and adult fiction. You can even find a book by describing the plot! (Novelist is one of the Maine Infonet Databases, and is available to Maine residents.)
Popular reading lists and series:	Best Books for Reading Groups The Modern Library 100 Best Novels Oprah's books Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series Who Reads What? Annual celebrity reading lists from the Gardiner Public Library
Reader's Catalog	Annotated selection of 40,000+ best books in print organized by subject category - from the editors and friends of The New York Review of Books
Reading group guides from:	Amazon.com Ballantine HarperCollins Picador USA St. Martin's Press (also has a link to author's websites) Simon and Schuster